Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

You'll be able to play existing Wii games on Nintendo's Wii U hardware, but if you were hoping to play more Super Mario Sunshine, there's bad news to report.

Wii U will not play GameCube games. I learned this and other details I'll share soon about Wii U during a short interview with Mark Franklin, the head of Nintendo's public relations division.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:46 am

by Alvin Flummux

Wind Waker HD please? Even though it still stands up today from a graphical perspective, it'd be amazing to see it in HD, plus well, uhm, WiiU won't be able to play the original and that's maybe the only GCN game I still care about getting to play in this day and age.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:15 am

by Poser

I haven't seen this mentioned, but someone needs to head to Nintendo and shake someone important really, really hard until they agree to make a new version of 1080.

I guess SSX will do in the meantime, but it was always a touch too flashy for my tastes. 1080 had a subtle maturity - and those avalanche levels

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:18 am

by Somebody Else's Problem

poser wrote:I haven't seen this mentioned, but someone needs to head to Nintendo and shake someone important really, really hard until they agree to make a new version of 1080.

I guess SSX will do in the meantime, but it was always a touch too flashy for my tastes. 1080 had a subtle maturity - and those avalanche levels

They could call it 1080p, to really push the HD aspect.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:18 am

by Mafro

Henke wrote:

Mafro wrote:

Henke wrote:Are there any people actually surprised by anything shown at the press conference?

John Riccitiello being at their conference was pretty huge. Having the CEO of the biggest publishers in the world is hopefully a sign that they're not messing about when it comes to third parties this time.

Sure, but how is that a negative thing? Some peeps need to realise they have unrealistic expectations that post-Wii/DS Nintendo will never meet.

I didn't say it was a negative.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:54 am

by 1cmanny1

Btw, this just occured to me lastnight, what joke are they playing here? Wii? U?Ring any bells? U doesnt really make sense. But if you just change wii around... PeeU.

Isnt this all much to be a coincidence?

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:17 pm

by Frank

Wii = WeU = You

It just shows Nintendo can't spell any more.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:20 pm

by Somebody Else's Problem

1cmanny1 wrote:Btw, this just occured to me lastnight, what joke are they playing here? Wii? U?Ring any bells? U doesnt really make sense. But if you just change wii around... PeeU.

Isnt this all much to be a coincidence?

And if you change the letters of 1cmanny1, you get idiot. Is that a coincidence?

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:05 pm

by cooldawn

Wow...Wii U can use 25GB discs.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:58 pm

by Carlos

Frank wrote:Wii = WeU = You

It just shows Nintendo can't spell any more.

As with Revolution before it Nintendo might still change the name, if only to avoid confusing consumers. I expect by E3 2012 we'll be saying hello to Nintendo U. NU is a cool abbreviation as it sounds 'new''

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:20 pm

by NickSCFC

Wii 2 will be the best way to avoid confusion with the casual/women who bought the Wii.

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 1:48 am

by 1cmanny1

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:

1cmanny1 wrote:Btw, this just occured to me lastnight, what joke are they playing here? Wii? U?Ring any bells? U doesnt really make sense. But if you just change wii around... PeeU.

Isnt this all much to be a coincidence?

And if you change the letters of 1cmanny1, you get idiot. Is that a coincidence?

No you dont. Somebody doesnt know how to spell...

Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:14 am

by Frank

1cmanny1 wrote: Somebody doesnt know how to spell...

After seeing how you spell jealous, I think it's probably you

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:49 am

by Somebody Else's Problem

NickSCFC wrote:Wii 2 will be the best way to avoid confusion with the casual/women who bought the Wii.

Because everyone who isn't a hardcore gamer is mentally retarded?

Re: Official Nintendo E3 Conference Thread - Wii U Revealed.

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:03 am

by Alvin Flummux

Given the numbers of people buying 3DS games expecting them to work in their DS', is it really wise to try to repeat the situation with the Wii?

Mass Effect WiiU is looking likely!

“I can’t say that we are going to do [Mass Effect 3] on the Wii U, but you can imagine what we could do with that controller in the Mass Effect universe,” EA Games head Frank Gibeau told Game Trailers

“It feels like it’s a really nice fit. But we’ll announce that when it’s ready.”